Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
BLAISE PASCALDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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We like to be deceived.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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